Retro:Cleveland/Northeast Ohio Monday, December 25, 1967

[Tim L]

From:TV Guide Cleveland Edition

6:20
3 Farm Front

6:30
3 Education Exchange

6:55
3 The Beginning-BW

7AM
3-21 Today
8 Rex Humbard-BW

7:15
8 News-Murray Stewart

7:25
5 News-BW

7:30
5 Donna Reed-BW
8 Cartoons-BW
27 CBS News-Joseph Benti

7:55
27 News-BW

8AM
5 Casper-BW
8-27 Captain Kangaroo
33 Cartoons-BW

8:30
5 Romper Room-Miss Barbara Plummer

9AM
3 Mike Douglas
5 Light The Dark Street-SPECIAL
8 Franz The Toymaker
21 Teleview
27 Romper Room
33 Ed Allen

9:30
5 Dating Game
21 Cartoons
27 FYI-Cliff Ferre
33 Film Feature-BW

9:45
27 Cartoons

10AM
3-21 Christmas Service-National Cathedral
5 Paige Palmer-"Santa Claus talks about losing Weight"
8 Love Of Life
23 Ed Allen
27 Search For Tomorrow

10:15
27 Guiding Light

10:25
3-21 NBC News
8 News-Howard Hoffman

10:30
5-33 Donna Reed-BW
8 Beverly Hillbillies-BW
23 Women's Page-BW
27 As The World Turns

11AM
3-21 Personality-Larry Blyden
Guests:Sam Levenson, Shelia MacRae, Betsy Palmer. On Film:George Hamilton

5-23-33 Temptation-Game
8-27 Andy Griffith-BW

11:25
5-23-33 Children's Doctor-Lendon Smith

11:30
3-21 Hollywood Squares-Peter Marshall
Abby Dalton, Jack Carter, Eartha Kitt, Wally Cox, Morey Amsterdam, Sebastian Cabot, Charley Weaver, Barbara Rush and Mike Connors

5-23-33 How's Your Mother-In-Law?-Wink Martindale
Marty Ingels, Joe E. Ross and Corbett Monica

8-27 Dick Van Dyke-BW

Noon
3-21 Jeopardy!-Art Fleming
5 News-Tom Field, Dorothy Fuldheim
8 News-Murray Stewart, Harry Jones, Hoolihan (Bob Wells)
23-33 Everybody's Talking-Pat Carroll, Milt Kamen, Leonard Nimoy (Final Week-BW)
27 Love Of Life

12:30
3-21 Eye Guess-Bill Cullen
5 Singing Angels-SPECIAL
8 Search For Tomorrow
23 Kathryn Kuhlman -Probably a special broadcast for Christmas
27 News-Bill Bowser

12:35
27 Movie-All Mine To Give-1957-BW

12:45
8 Guiding Light

12:55
3-21 NBC News

1PM
3 Three On The Town-Clay Cole and Mark Russell with guest Ventriliquist Angela Martin
5-23-33 Fugitive-BW
8 Franz Christmas Special
21 Match Game

1:25
21 News

1:30
3 Let's Make a Deal
8 As The World Turns
21 Virginia Graham

2PM
3-21 Days Of Our Lives
5-23-33 US Open Highlights-SPECIAL
8-27 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

2:15
5-23 North South Shrine Football Game-Keith Jackson/Bud Wilkinson

2:30
3-21 Doctors
8-27 House Party

3PM
3-21 Another World
8 Movie-Mr. Magoo's Storybook-1964-Compilation of episodes of "Famous Adventures Of Mr. Magoo"...Originally aired in the 1964-65 season Saturday nights on NBC-TV
27 To Tell The Truth

3:25
27 News

3:30
3-21 You Don't Say!-Tom Kennedy-With Chad Everett and Patricia Crowley
27 Edge Of Night

4PM
3 Match Game-Gene Rayburn-With Phyllis Diller and Mitch Miller
17 Rainbow Theatre-BW-Likely a 50's or 60's Dramatic Anthology rerun
21 Movie-1001 Arabian Nights-Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo)

4:15
25 London Line-Report-BW

4:25
3 NBC News-Floyd Kalber

4:30
3 PDQ-Dennis James-Barbara Feldon, Dick Gautier and Michael Landon
17 Cartoons-BW
25 Busy Knitter-BW
27 Merv Griffin

5PM
3 Movie-The Big Beat 1958-BW
5-23-33 NBA Basketball-Los Angeles Lakers at San Diego Rockets-With Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman
8 Young People's Concert-SPECIAL
17 Shotgun Slade-BW
25 Film Feature-BW

5:30
17 Restless Gun-BW
25 Kindergarten-Joyce Marron-BW

6PM
8 News-Doug Adair, Martin Ross, Dick Goddard, Frank Gleiber
17 News-BW
21-27 News
25 What's New?-BW


6:15
17 Sidelight-BW

6:30
3-21 Huntley-Brinkley
8=27 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
17 Sports Playback-BW
25 Folk Guitar-Laura Weber-BW

7PM
3 News-Virgil Dominic, Wally Kinnan, Jim Graner
5 News-John Hambrick, Don Webster, Gib Shanley
8 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker
17 Sherry Lee-BW
21 Patty Duke-BW
23 News-BW
25 Efficient Reading-BW
27 Rifleman-BW
33 ABC News-Peter Jennings

7:15
23 Women's Page

7:30
3-21 Monkees
5-23 Cowboy In Africa
8-27 Gunsmoke
17 Local News-BW
25 Spectrum-BW
33 Movie-Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick-1952-BW

7:45
17 Holiday-Travel-BW

8PM
3-21 Man From UNCLE
17 Movie-Miracle On 34th Street 1947-BW
25 NET Journal-BW

8:30
5-23 Rat Patrol
8-27 Lucille Ball (Lucy Show)

9PM
3-21 Danny Thomas Hour
5-23 Felony Squad
8-27 Andy Griffith
25 Power of the Dollar-DEBUT-BW

9:30
5-23-33 Peyton Place
8-27 Family Affair
17 Messiah-BW
25 NET Playhouse-BW (Channel 25 sign-off-10:45)

10PM
3-21 I Spy
5-23-33 Big Valley
8 Movie-A Man Called Peter-1955 (11PM News pre-empted)
27 Movie-The Tarnished Angels-1957-BW (11PM News Pre-empted)

11PM
3 News-Dominic
5 News-Hambrick
21 News
23-33 News-BW

11:15
3 Weather-Kinnan
5 Weather-Ron Penfound
23 Country-Western Music-BW

11:20
3 Sports-Jim Graner
5 Sports-Gib Shanley
33 Outdoor Report-Jerry Blinzley-BW

11:30
3-21 Tonight-Guest Host Victor Borge
5-23-33 Joey Bishop

12:30
27 Peter Gunn

12:40
8 Movie-Mr. Scoutmaster-1953-BW

1AM
3 Sea Hunt-BW
5 Outdoor World

1:30
3 Tonight School

 

[Firebird]

From:TV Guide Cleveland Edition

7PM
3 News-Virgil Dominic, Wally Kinnan, Jim Graner
5 News-John Hambrick, Don Webster, Gib Shanley

Wasn't this John Hambrick's first newscast at Channel 5? Seems unusual to introduce a new anchor on Christmas Day.

 

[Tim L]

Seems like it was his first night..according to the ad on this blog post I did early in 2008..

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-hambricks-debut-at-wews-december.html

There's a full page ad on Hambrick stating, in part:

"Tonight, A New Name makes News in Cleveland"

The ad was featured in Monday's (12-25) listings..He could have started just before this, but I'd have to see the previous week's listings to be sure..

 

[bpatrick]

Wasn't Virgil Dominic also doing NBC radio news on the hour
around this time? This is about five years before he moved
to Ch. 11 in Atlanta.

I also note in these listings, as well as some I've posted from
the '70s, that NBC carried the Washington Cathedral service.
Today they're on an ad-hoc network set up by Allbritton Communications,
owners of DC's ABC affiliate, WJLA; in fact I once again observed an annual
tradition and watched it this morning.

But why did NBC stop carrying the service?

 

[Tim L]

Wasn't Virgil Dominic also doing NBC radio news on the hour
around this time? This is about five years before he moved
to Ch. 11 in Atlanta.

Well, considering Dominic had already been anchoring "Seventh Hour/Eleventh Hour" report since November, 1965, It would seem very likely that he would have been established enough at NBC to anchor some Radio newscasts from there..

 

[bpatrick]

Yeah, I keep thinking he did radio newscasts around
5 PM. I know I'd heard of him before he moved to Atlanta.
BTW, for the four years he was at WQXI/WXIA he was the
highest-paid anchor in Atlanta.

 

[Kurt Toy]

You left out Concentration at 10:30 on the NBC stations.

 

[Tim L]

You left out Concentration at 10:30 on the NBC stations.

Kurt:
The Christmas Service was listed at 60 minutes..Unless NBC interrupted at 10:25 for a newsbreak (possible, but not likely)..The 10:25 News listing may be a misprint on TV Guide's part..In any case, Concentration was probably not shown that day..

 

[bpatrick]

I can't imagine NBC cutting away from the church service
for a newscast either. The sermon usually begins about
that time.

Off-topic but on: I never knew Frank Glieber worked in
Cleveland. I always associate him with the Dallas Cowboys
and as sports anchor on KXAS until his death in the mid-'80s.

 

[Tim L]

Here's the Channel lineup, which I neglected to mention in the Original Post:

3 WKYC-NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS-ABC Cleveland
8-WJW-CBS Cleveland
17 WJAN-IND. Canton
21 WFMJ-NBC Youngstown
23 WAKR-ABC Akron
25 WVIZ-NET Cleveland
27 WKBN-CBS Youngstown
33 WYTV-ABC Youngstown

A couple of notes here:
WVIZ-25:All programming was still in Black and White

WJAN-17: After nearly a year, They were broadcasting 4-11 PM weekdays..Saturdays (7:15-10:15) only for High School Sports and not at all on Sundays..They were also all Black and White Programming

 

[Tim L]

Off-topic but on: I never knew Frank Glieber worked in
Cleveland.  I always associate him with the Dallas Cowboys
and as sports anchor on KXAS until his death in the mid-'80s.

Glieber took the place of Ken Coleman, who left Cleveland in Spring 1966 to work as a Boston Red Sox announcer..

A kinda funny story relating to that: Meteorologist Dick Goddard, after moving to Philadelphia with Westinghouse in June '65 upon the reverse KYW/WRCV swap, decided within a few months he wanted to move back to Cleveland, being born and raised in the Northeast Ohio area..He had offers from 3, 5 and 8 to return as a Forecaster..He chose WJW-8 because "They had the Browns" and he wanted to work with Ken Coleman..Goddard's first day at Channel 8 was March 28, 1966..By the end of April Coleman was gone..So much for working with your idol..